The china painter Brownie Downing and the pottery firm Martin Boyd were significant creators of images of Aboriginal people in Australian popular culture during the 1950s. Brownie Downing's transfer-printed plates and wall-plaques with their Aboriginal children were an inescapable feature of suburban Australian life in the 1950s and 1960s. Likewise, the homeware turned out by the Martin Boyd factory, hand decorated with 'authentic' Aboriginal designs and with images of Arrernte elders, was prominently displayed in popular magazine spreads and department stores of the time.